Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Edmund Gwenn. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Rocket from Calabuch

1956 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Valentina Cortese · Franco Fabrizi · Juan Calvo

Plot A renown atomic scientist escapes from his world of formulas and destruction and finds a respite in a Spanish seaside village.

7.5

7K votes

7.5

7K votes

The Keys of the Kingdom

1944 · Movie · 137 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Gregory Peck · Vincent Price · Thomas Mitchell · Rose Stradner

Plot A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as...

7.0

653 votes

7.0

653 votes

The Devil And Miss Jones

1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Jean Arthur · Robert Cummings · Charles Coburn · Edmund Gwenn

Plot Tycoon John P. Merrick is startled to see an effigy of himself hanging on the front page of the New York Times, courtesy of union organizers at Neeley's Department Store,...

6.9

199 votes

6.9

199 votes

Miracle on 34th Street

1947 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Seaton

Cast Maureen O'Hara · John Payne · Edmund Gwenn · Gene Lockhart

Plot Six year old Susan has doubts childhood's most enduring miracle Santa Clause. Her mother told her the "secret" about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Foreign Correspondent

1940 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Joel McCrea · Laraine Day · Herbert Marshall · George Sanders

Plot Johnny Jones, an insubordinate city desk reporter, is sent to London as a foreign correspondent. There he interviews Van Meer, leader of a peace movement endorsed by Universal Peace Party...

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6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

Them!

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast James Whitmore · Edmund Gwenn · Joan Weldon · James Arness

Plot That ol' cinematic devil the A-bomb has spawned a colony of giant murderous ants bent on destroying humanity in this, the seminal big bug movie (an obvious and oft-credited influence...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Pride and Prejudice

1940 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Greer Garson · Laurence Olivier · Mary Boland · Edna May Oliver

Plot Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy...

6.7

639 votes

6.7

639 votes

Les Miserables

1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Michael Rennie · Debra Paget · Robert Newton · Edmund Gwenn

Plot After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced to ten years as a galley slave. There he meets Javert, an obsessive policeman who...

6.7

94 votes

6.7

94 votes

Mister 880

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Burt Lancaster · Dorothy McGuire · Edmund Gwenn · Millard Mitchell

Plot The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed...

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

The Bigamist

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

6.6

628 votes

6.6

628 votes

The Trouble With Harry

1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Edmund Gwenn · John Forsythe · Shirley MacLaine · Mildred Natwick

Plot Young Arnie, walking through the Vermont woods, hears some threats, and then gunshots. Investigating, he finds the body of Harry Worp, and he thinks Harry has been murdered. He tells...

6.6

7K votes

6.6

7K votes

You Were There

1946 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Robert Taylor · Robert Mitchum · Edmund Gwenn

Plot Young bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.

6.5

685 votes

6.5

685 votes

Life with Father

1947 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Irene Dunne · Elizabeth Taylor · Edmund Gwenn

Plot In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is...

6.4

312 votes

6.4

312 votes

Cheers for Miss Bishop

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Martha Scott · William Gargan · Edmund Gwenn · Sterling Holloway

Plot Nostalgic, poignant story of a schoolteacher in a midwestern town who devotes her life to teaching. A warm reassuring film in the tradition of "Miss Dove" and "Mr. Chips".

6.4

52 votes

6.4

52 votes

Green Dolphin Street

1947 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Lana Turner · Van Heflin · Donna Reed · Richard Hart

Plot Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall...

6.4

232 votes

6.4

232 votes

Of Human Bondage

1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Henreid · Eleanor Parker · Alexis Smith · Edmund Gwenn

Plot A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.

6.3

40 votes

6.3

40 votes

Apartment for Peggy

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction George Seaton

Cast Jeanne Crain · William Holden · Edmund Gwenn · Gene Lockhart

Plot Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic...

6.3

40 votes

6.3

40 votes

Sylvia Scarlett

1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Doctor Takes a Wife

1940 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Loretta Young · Ray Milland · Reginald Gardiner · Gail Patrick

Plot June Cameron has written a best seller about spinsters: women are men's equals and don't need them for fulfillment. Through a series of errors and misunderstandings, the press believes she's...

6.2

117 votes

6.2

117 votes

The Skin Game

1931 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Jill Esmond · John Longden · C.V. France

Plot The movie starts with Hornblower buying property from the proud, proper English landowner Hillcrest, assuring him that the tenant farmers would be allowed to stay. Soon Hornblower evicts them to...

5.9

553 votes

5.9

553 votes